Agenda - Planning Commission - 04/21/1997 - Special Meeting

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CASE # REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR A SEASONAL, OUTDOOR, RECREATIONAL FACILITY; CASE OF HOLM'S SUPER BOWL, INC. By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik Background: The City has received an application for a conditional use permit from Super Bowl to establish four volley ball courts and an outdoor bar area on the west side of the Super Bowl structure located at 6740 Highway #10 NW. Observations: The applicants are proposing to eliminate the two existing volley ball courts on the east side of the building and relocate this activity to the west side and increase the number of courts from two to four. The operation of the existing volley ball courts on the east side of the structure were permitted to occur without benefit of a conditional use permit as an extension of the indoor commercial recreational use. The City has, on occasion, received complaints regarding trespassing on to adjacent residential parcels and noise as a result of the volley ball activities. Therefore, when the applicant approached the City regarding relocating the courts to the west side and increasing the number of courts, it was determined by City staff that a conditional use permit would be appropriate. The applicant has stated that the establishment of these courts on the west side of the building will not deplete the amount of existing off-street parking spaces on the site. The surrounding parcels to the east, west, and north are zoned commercial and the parcel immediately adjacent on the southwest side of the subject property is currently going through a rezoning process from commercial to single family residential. The applicant has submitted a site plan that proposes to encompass the entire volley ball court area in chain link fence. This chain link fence would be established approximately one foot in from the common property line with the adjacent parcel to the southwest. The actual courts themselves would then maintain a 40-foot separation from the adjacent parcel on the southwest. The applicant has also proposed to plant some trees along Ebony Street. City Code does not require screening in this area but it does require a 20-foot wide landscaped area along public streets. The width of this landscape area is not noted on this site plan. The site plan also proposes to establish trees between courts one and three and two and four. City staff would recommend that although there is already a substantial tree cover between the subject property and the adjacent parcel on the southwest, that additional coniferous trees be established along this common property line and the southwest comer of the property to intensify the effect of the screening from the residential neighborhood to the south.